This is a Dali painting that I don't remember. What do you make of its symbolism? I know who Narcissus is, but Dali paintings always have something else going on in them.
Like many Munch paintings, it obviously focuses on the theme of death, but why is the little girl covering her ears? For whatever it's worth, this painting is allegedly haunted (I suppose all Munch paintings look haunted, but this one includes reports of the girl disappearing from the painting on occasion).
Article about "Stuart Fails To Save The Universe".
How else would there be so many people named "Bob", which would be a silly name if it wasn't part of an organized effort to gain dominance by organizing all Bobs into a cohesive army. Every Bob is a sleeper agent waiting to strike once the order is given by the Chief Bob.
Think about it: IBM employees are (or were) famously required to wear a suit and tie, and rarely see the sun and therefore have chalk white skin. So do the Men In Black. ::dramatic pause:: Just coincidence? I think not.
One of the most mysterious documents from the medieval period, the Voynich manuscript still has not been translated despite ongoing attempts to find a method.
Medieval art tended to have a fixation on snails, but this one is unusual even by the usual bizarre standards of medieval snail art: a full painting of people living inside giant snail shells for a book called "Secrets of Natural History".
One scene from the Unicorn Tapestries, currently at the Met Cloisters, dating from c. 1495.
Now in the British Museum. Image usage is allowed by the museum for non-commercial use: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/24458001
Article about tiny 15th century carvings using boxwood.
I have searched the internet extensively for an English translation of the Domesday Book but have only found a database with scans of the original manuscript (which I could translate but it would be a tedious slog) along with brief summaries of the entries but these leave out most of the rents and other details. Obviously there are printed translations but these are difficult to obtain. Does anyone know of an online translation of the entire thing?